Meet The Oscars event in Hollywood
SHOTLIST
1. Pan Hollywood & Highland courtyard
2. Pan down to “Meet the Oscars!” sign
3. Pan up Oscar statue
4. Pan inside exhibit to display of Oscars
5. Closeup placard noting 50 statuettes for 79th Annual Academy Awards, with pull out to reveal portion of Oscar display
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sid Ganis/President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: “Well, here we are: ‘Meet the Oscars.’ We’re at Hollywood & Highland — just up the escalator from the Kodak theatre, where, on February 25th, we’ll be handing out the Oscars. So, come here anytime between now and February 25th, and we have a display of the 50 Oscars, which we’re actually going to give out on Oscar night — are here! Right here in this room! In addition to that, I’m holding this baby in my hand, but, actually, you can pick it up, have your picture taken with it, have a good love at it, understand it, and, of course, feel the heft of it: eight-and-a-half pounds of Oscar right here. And it’s a rare, and kind of nice, experience. I mean, I’m a movie producer and I hope I win one one of these days. But, in the meantime, I can hold it in my hand, and so can everybody else.”
7. Closeup of cameraperson with pull out to reveal reporter handling Oscar
8. Closeup placard noting 50th 79th Annual Academy Awards statuettes, with pull out to reveal actor Katharine Hepburn’s four Oscars
9. Pan of black-and-white stilla of Hepburn in her Oscar-winning roles
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sid Ganis/President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: “Speaking of Oscars, we have all four of Katharine Hepburn’s winning Oscars. Her estate has presented us with all four of her Oscars. So, they’re here. Then we have two other Oscars. We know we’re going to give special Oscars to Ennio Morricone and Sherry Lansing, for the work Ennio has done as a compose and for Sherry as a philanthropist — not as a movie producer or studio head, but as a philanthropist. But also you can come and, we have a great trivia contest that I’m getting pretty good at now, but I’ve been kind of working at it for about three weeks as we’ve been preparing, video montages of former Oscar shows and the current nominees, so it’s a good, it’s a very good installation.”
11. Pan down on photos of Best Director nominees
12. Detail man touching video screen of Oscar-trivia game
13. Pan up honorary award to composer Ennio Morricone, to be handed out 25 February
14. Push in to photo of Morricone
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sid Ganis/President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with news about the telecast: “We’re live on February 25th: 5 o’clock on the west coast, 8 o’clock on the east coast, and, I promise you, tune in at the top of the show because the producer, Laura Ziskin, has a surprise that is going to set us off in a great direction.”
16. First public visitor to exhibit poses with statuette
17. Subsequent public visitor to exhibit poses with statuette
18. Subsequent public visitor to exhibit poses with statuette and walks off camera
MEET THE OSCARS!
Now, everyone can come to Hollywood and get their hands on an Oscar.
This morning marked the Los Angeles opening of “Meet the Oscars,” an installation in honour of the annual Academy Awards.
In addition to the 50, unengraved competition-category statuettes for this year’s telecast, there are the two engraved honorary Oscars already earmarked for composer Ennio Morricone and, for her philanthropic efforts, movie producer and studio exec Sherry Lansing.
The installation also includes an Oscar trivia game, video presentation and photo displays.
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